USS Nimitz For earlier generations of Indians, the idea of a US aircraft carrier is the idea of the enemy. Think of 1971, the USS enterprise sent in to the Bay of Bengal to deliver a warning to the Indian government as it was close to winning the 1971 war with Pakistan. However, this time when the Nimitz an...
The US Department of Defence (DOD) may be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda. The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every ma...
Tselina-2 launch scheduled for launch tomorrow. A Kosmos-2428 (Tselina-2 n23) satellite is scheduled to be launched aboard a Zenit-2M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, at 10:00 UTC, 29 June 2007 This is the first launch of the new upgraded Zenit launch vehicles to lift off from Baiko...
Astroparticle physicists in Europe have identified six key challenges that they face and the new facilities that they need to meet their research aims. Their plans for the next ten years have been outlined in The Astroparticle Physics Roadmap Phase 1 published by ApPEC and ASPERA, which are consor...
The launch of a privately funded US space module, Genesis II, has been delayed by a month for testing, the second such delay for it, its American makers said Monday. Genesis II was scheduled for launch in Russia by a civilian Dnepr rocket, based on a modified intercontinental ballistic missile. But a...
They say it holds a secret no less than that of the Universe. That it guards the answer to the power of the Sun. No, it is not the latest Spielberg blockbuster. It is a mine. But a mine covered in a veil of mystery. Alshar, an ancient mine located in the southern Balkans, in Macedonia, is said to contain min...
June is the month with the longest nights and shortest days. June is an excellent month for viewing the planets. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible for all of the month. Mercury will be visible for all but the very end of the month. Mercury will be visible in the Western evening sky for all bu...
Title: Molecular Hydrogen emission from disks in the eta Chamaeleontis cluster Authors: Suzanne K. Ramsay Howat, Jane S. Greaves Disks in the 6 Myr old cluster eta Chamaeleontis were searched for emission from hot H2. Around the M3 star ECHAJ0843.3-7905 we detect circumstellar gas orbiting at ~2...
First Detection of Thorium in an Extragalactic Star Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor dwarf galaxy. Their discovery marks the first...
An artist has added to the repertoire of all-singing, all-dancing mobile phones by creating paintings with one. Art lecturer Allan Paris abandoned his brushes and canvas to produce images using a touch-sensitive screen on his handset. 'I discovered the technique when I got a new phone' - Allan Par...
The Rochester Museum & Science Centre's Strasenburgh Planetarium opens two new shows on the IMAX screen in July. Each Saturday night at 10 p.m. will be a laser light show choreographed to the music of Irish rock band U2. Also at various times throughout the week will be Space Earth, a 50-minute mo...
This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. The Hubble space telescope's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright n...
Nuclear-powered rockets could save NASA billions of dollars in launch costs for its planned return to the Moon, a top nuclear scientist says. He argues that the higher efficiency of nuclear propulsion would reduce the number of launches needed to build a lunar base. NASA wants to start sending astr...
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